Linda Hamilton

Linda Lee Hamilton of Highland Avenue, Broad Brook, died Monday at home. She was 36. She was born in Springfield and lived in Enfield most of her life before moving to Broad Brook two years ago. She was a graduate of Enrico Fermi High School in Enfield and a recent honors graduate and member of the National Honor Society at Asnuntuck Community-Technical College in Enfield. She leaves her husband, Douglas Hamilton; two children, Scott Douglas Hamilton of Broad Brook and Donna Sue Hamilton of Enfield; two stepdaughters, Stephanie Michele and Danielle Marie Skinner, both of Enfield; and a sister, Michele Gregoire of Enfield.

- A shipment of bats arrived and Josh Hamilton was like a kid opening a present. He took one out and started swinging in the middle of the clubhouse, mimicking teammates' stances. "You kidding? Any time new equipment comes in, it's like Christmas," he said. These simple joys Hamilton had taken for granted, his addiction to crack cocaine and dependence on alcohol pulling him deep into darkness. He was suspended from baseball twice, was in and out of rehab eight times, and tried to take his own life.

Hamilton - Covaleski Patricia Marie Covaleski and Mark Stuart Hamilton were married on September 4, 2004 at 3 p.m. at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Greenwich. Monsignor William Genuario officiated. The bride is the daughter of Edmund and Margaret Covaleski of Newington. The groom is the son of Donald and Linda Hamilton of Bridgeport. Michele Peruch was the maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Amy Antonacci, Angela D'Amato, Amy Simcik and Julianne Skoczylas. Scott Glover and Michael Skoczylas were the best men. Groomsmen were Christopher Cavaliere, Scott Chiappetta and Timothy Krocheski.

Linda Hamilton throws out her arms, as if she suddenly sees an old lost friend and beckons him to her embrace. Hamilton's giddy enthusiasm, caffeinated energy and self-deprecating humor might surprise fans who remember her gritty Sarah Connor in the "Terminator" movies (well, the first two blockbusters anyway) or D.A. Catherine Chandler in the TV series "Beauty and the Beast." On a sunny morning outside the rehearsal hall of the Berkshire Theatre Festival, she is as loose and lively as a kid at summer camp, albeit one who loves to smoke.

She remembers the first time she saw the great guns -- sinewy, commando-like arms of steel cradling a make-my-doomsday weapon. Yeah, the firepower was mighty, but it was the lethal arms that were more viscerally potent. "She was so tough and strong," recalls Linda Wells, editor in chief of Allure magazine. "I went straight to my trainer and said, `Give me the Linda Hamilton arms!"' It's been 10 years since "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" drew gasps not only for its special effects but for Hamilton's ripped arms -- biceps of such unambiguous strength that women across the country, like Wells, hightailed it to the gym with a single mantra for "Linda Hamilton arms."

"The Terminator" attained cult status as a gritty "B" science-fiction "Frankenstein" that brilliantly exploited one of the movies' strangest screen presences, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Seven years later, the big iron-pumper has somehow metamorphosed into the most bankable of stars. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" brings him back as a killing machine in one of the most wantonly wasteful pictures in history. This time Schwarzenegger is a good guy, a sympathetic monster, a cyborg Shane.

- A shipment of bats arrived and Josh Hamilton was like a kid opening a present. He took one out and started swinging in the middle of the clubhouse, mimicking teammates' stances. "You kidding? Any time new equipment comes in, it's like Christmas," he said. These simple joys Hamilton had taken for granted, his addiction to crack cocaine and dependence on alcohol pulling him deep into darkness. He was suspended from baseball twice, was in and out of rehab eight times, and tried to take his own life.

Linda Hamilton throws out her arms, as if she suddenly sees an old lost friend and beckons him to her embrace. Hamilton's giddy enthusiasm, caffeinated energy and self-deprecating humor might surprise fans who remember her gritty Sarah Connor in the "Terminator" movies (well, the first two blockbusters anyway) or D.A. Catherine Chandler in the TV series "Beauty and the Beast." On a sunny morning outside the rehearsal hall of the Berkshire Theatre Festival, she is as loose and lively as a kid at summer camp, albeit one who loves to smoke.

With her life in shambles, Frances Lacey, a single mother with five rambunctious kids, decides the only way to pull her life together is to build a dream house in the offbeat family drama "A Home of Our Own." It's a crackpot idea considering that Frances (Kathy Bates) doesn't have two nickels to rub together. More important, this hard-nosed, take-no-guff, two-fisted character has just been fired from her job in Los Angeles where she had been working with chips -- potato chips, that is, not computer chips.

Dante's Peak -- Pierce Brosnan is a volcanologist and Linda Hamilton is the mayor of a small town in the Northern Cascades hit by earthquakes, mudslides and lava surges in Roger Donaldson's disaster sweepstakes entry. Opens Friday The Pest -- The multitalented John Leguizamo goes wild and crazy as a Miami con man who becomes a human target for a $50,000 fee -- changing roles to save his skin. Paul Miller directs, and Jeffrey Jones shows his patented nasty side as the bad guy. Opens Friday The Beautician and the Beast -- Fran Dresher is a Queens cosmetologist and Timothy Dalton dons a Stalinist mustache as the dictator of Slovetzai, who makes the mistake of hiring her to tutor his children in the ways of the West and the correct uses of blush.

Hamilton - Covaleski Patricia Marie Covaleski and Mark Stuart Hamilton were married on September 4, 2004 at 3 p.m. at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Greenwich. Monsignor William Genuario officiated. The bride is the daughter of Edmund and Margaret Covaleski of Newington. The groom is the son of Donald and Linda Hamilton of Bridgeport. Michele Peruch was the maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Amy Antonacci, Angela D'Amato, Amy Simcik and Julianne Skoczylas. Scott Glover and Michael Skoczylas were the best men. Groomsmen were Christopher Cavaliere, Scott Chiappetta and Timothy Krocheski.

She remembers the first time she saw the great guns -- sinewy, commando-like arms of steel cradling a make-my-doomsday weapon. Yeah, the firepower was mighty, but it was the lethal arms that were more viscerally potent. "She was so tough and strong," recalls Linda Wells, editor in chief of Allure magazine. "I went straight to my trainer and said, `Give me the Linda Hamilton arms!"' It's been 10 years since "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" drew gasps not only for its special effects but for Hamilton's ripped arms -- biceps of such unambiguous strength that women across the country, like Wells, hightailed it to the gym with a single mantra for "Linda Hamilton arms."

Linda Lee Hamilton of Highland Avenue, Broad Brook, died Monday at home. She was 36. She was born in Springfield and lived in Enfield most of her life before moving to Broad Brook two years ago. She was a graduate of Enrico Fermi High School in Enfield and a recent honors graduate and member of the National Honor Society at Asnuntuck Community-Technical College in Enfield. She leaves her husband, Douglas Hamilton; two children, Scott Douglas Hamilton of Broad Brook and Donna Sue Hamilton of Enfield; two stepdaughters, Stephanie Michele and Danielle Marie Skinner, both of Enfield; and a sister, Michele Gregoire of Enfield.

"The Terminator" attained cult status as a gritty "B" science-fiction "Frankenstein" that brilliantly exploited one of the movies' strangest screen presences, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Seven years later, the big iron-pumper has somehow metamorphosed into the most bankable of stars. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" brings him back as a killing machine in one of the most wantonly wasteful pictures in history. This time Schwarzenegger is a good guy, a sympathetic monster, a cyborg Shane.

BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS--Sent C-3B Mitch Maier, 2B Donnie Murphy, 2B Ruben Gotay and OF Shane Costa to their minor league camp. FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS--Re-signed S Shawn Wooden to a one-year contract.NEW ORLEANS SAINTS--Agreed to terms with DT Brian Young on a four-year contract. HOCKEY American Hockey League MANCHESTER MONARCHS--Assigned F Leon Hayward to Reading of the ECHL.ROCHESTER AMERICANS--Signed LW Jeff Hutchins.

MOVIES Dante's Peak -- In which Pierce Brosnan rescues an entire town, including its hard- bodied honey of a mayor (Linda Hamilton), from a belching volcano, all without damage to his modified Bobby Rydell coiffure. The film might have benefited from a little humor -- for instance, one of the townspeople could have pointed at Brosnan's slender torso and said to a neighbor, "That's called liposuction." (Universal) Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997) -- Based on the book that exploded the myth about American teenage boys' being uninterested in traditional Indian culture.